I need exhell for some old files I need to work on and don't want to install windows .... So I thought I might take a sip of wine.

So, I'm trying to install MS office (or parts thereof) with the help of WINE. This seems to start off well, as the installation program starts up and I can proceed right up to the moment where it would start copying files, but the it bails out with an error 2761. When googling for that one I find:

Code:

Cannot begin transaction. Global mutex not properly initialized.

Surely that doesn't mean a lot to me and it is an office error rather than a wine error, when you look at it in the first instant. It must be related to wine however, because this CD installs fine under windows.

I tried with both the x86 latest wine and the ~x86 latest wine and they both have the same error. I set wine up with the latest winesetuptk, wich produce a working config before.

Maybe someone had this before, and managed to fix it. I'd be glad to hear it.

I remember reading once that to install Office 2000 under wine you need to omit the Internet Explorer and Office Assistant manually by selecting a custom installation and then explicitly avoiding those two packages. Your error really doesn't mean anything to me either but you might give this a shot. In the meantime I will try to find the resource that I am (hopefully accurately) quoting.

could you post the way you try to solve this problem ?
Because at work we 're lookin for replace windows partition by a "fake_windows". This is the last problem before removing MSWin from the PC of the station.
Actually, we (linux users) use codeweaverwine and a win98 partition. Office 2000 work fine (and faster than under win98), except for the print._________________A decade with Gentoo...

hmmm I deleted the .wine dir again and just executed wine in a console. It created its own config and fake_win then and after that the install went past the previous showstopper. Now I CAN get word and excel to run, but there are still some problems like wine throwing up when I try to use macros. I look further into it...

Are you using vanilla-sources? I had some problems with memory management and quicktime in other kernels (like wolk or gentoo-sources)._________________"I'm just very selective about the reality I choose to accept." -- Calvin

Instead of using wine. There is a company called Codeweavers that has a wine-like application called CrossOver Office that will allow you to use MS Office 2000 to it's fullest potential. Will cost you about $55 dollars though. The site is www.codeweavers.com.

Instead of using wine. There is a company called Codeweavers that has a wine-like application called CrossOver Office that will allow you to use MS Office 2000 to it's fullest potential. Will cost you about $55 dollars though. The site is www.codeweavers.com.

-- Digiman

Yep I know about that. I was just wondering how it could me made to work under wine... Still digging and having already setup up a windows partion.....

I have Word, Excel, and Powerpoint pretty much completely working (minus printing). The only quirk is that I can only open files by typing them on the command line, which is no prob. By this I mean that I have to:

Code:

wine winword.exe doc_to_open.doc

If I try to open a file inside the application I get an error.

Hope this helps. If you want to see my config file I can pm it or just post it here.

This thread may be dead already, but I linked in from the Gentoo newsletter.

I've got Word, Excel and Powerpoint 2000 running using wine, and the process is very simple if you use the latest version of wine from CVS! Wine development is still moving at a rapid pace so the ebuild is already way out of date.

The only thing that doesn't work to well is clip art, and clippy - the 'innovative' Office Assistant. Clippy will actually crash Office under wine, simply DON'T INSTALL IT.

Other than that I have been using word for quite some time, it's good stable and somewhat reliable. However, make like you are playing Zork on a C64 and save your work constantly. Sometimes word will crash.

The installation goes really smooth, just remember two things:

1) DO use Wine from CVS
2) DON'T install the Office Assistant!

I also highly recommend the products from Crossover, this company has been supporting Wine development and the stuff works great.

Is there any way to get rid of the windows install stuff that occurs every time I start word? Right now that happens for me and I have wine-20030115 installed. Its not a big deal, it just takes a few seconds, but I was just wondering if there were any easy solutions. Thanks.

I tried to install Office via wine, but it complained about not having the installer program there, I probably had to do the mount -o unhide. But I only just saw that post. Instead I installed via winex, and it installed just fine, no glitches at all.

Now when I execute via winex the only problem I've noticed so far is that I the toolbars buttons are blank. When I move one toolbar to another location, or even just click on it as if I am going to, all the buttons appear with their proper images.

This isn't much of a problem for me since I don't use most of them and know all the key-shortcuts, but is there a reason why this happens? Is it because I'm using winex instead of wine?

My winex and wine are both default builds from portage.

I also haven't tried to save or open files as of yet. So that is not a concern yet.

I had to do a little convincing to get it to work (do a custom install, don't install IE, outlook, or the office assistant. Also make sure that it's installed into c:\program files. For some reason, the installer wanted to put it into c:\windows\system\program files\...

In regard to the problems with saving and loading files, try one or both of the following;

1) In the wine config file (~/wine/config), change
"ole32" = "builtin, native"
to
"ole32" = "native, builtin"
(Didn't work for me. I'm going to experiment a bit more to see if I can get it to work)

2) apply this advice:
www.winehq.com/hypermail/wine-users/2002/10/0081.html -- it means you have to do some hacking on the source code. In the source directry, open dlls/ole32/ole2stubs.c and find the WriteFmtUserTypeStg function. Modify it to return S_OK instead of E_NOTIMPL. Recompile and reinstall. Should this patch be added to portage? (Hasn't been tested by me, known to work for other people)

Finally, there is another, MUCH easier alternative (albeit annoying). Word will properly save and open anay file NOT in word (.doc or .dot) format.

CossoverOffice from codeweavers is very good, and you're supporting a company that actively supports open source free software (wine to be specific.)

I have Outlook, Word, Excell, Internet Explorer, and Media Player (mplayer2, not wmplayer) working great under Codeweavers' version of wine and their installer. They also make it easy to associate files with office applications; you can double-click a word doc in KDE or Gnome and it opens word.

And, I have no windows partition or windows anywhere on the machine.

I'm sure you could get it working on your own with vanilla wine, but if you need it working now, CrossoverOffice is definately worth looking at.